A bill to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Home Health Clearinghouse to provide elderly persons with a single place where they can obtain complete information on the Federal health programs available to them, and to create within the Department an Assistant Secretary for Elderly Health with responsibility for all health and health-related matters involving the elderly.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide grants to organizations for providing legal assistance to poor, elderly individuals in connection with their entitlement to home health services under titles XVIII, XIX, and XX of the Social Security Act.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend title XX of the Social Security Act to provide for the reallotment of unused social services funds, in any fiscal year, to States which will use such funds during the succeeding year in furnishing services aimed at preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by making home or community care available; to provide additional Federal matching for multipurpose senior center programs; and to provide for the standardization of eligibility requirements for the funding of senior centers.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Medicare Long-Term Care Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that any Federal employee who, at the time of retirement, does not elect a reduced annuity in order to provide a survivor annuity to a spouse or other person may make such an election within 1 year after retiring.
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide that medicaid is a payor of last resort and to permit recovery by States from certain estates of medicaid expenses incurred by individuals before reaching the age of 65.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide that social security benefit increases occurring after May 1977 shall not be considered as income or resources for the purposes of determining the eligibility for or amount of assistance when any individual or family is provided under certain Federal housing laws.
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Long Term Care Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy.
1978-07-18: Measure laid on table in House, S. 995 passed in lieu.
A bill to prohibit Members of the House of Representatives from soliciting or accepting gifts of money for their personal use.
1977-04-06: Referred to House Select Committee on Ethics.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Japanese-Americans shall be allowed civil service retirement credit for time spent in World War II internment camps.
1977-04-20: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Geriatric Health Personnel Training Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Nursing Home Reform Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that the President should not impose any tariff or other import restriction on petroleum or petroleum products before April 1, 1975.
1975-01-20: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to promote the use of energy conservation, solar energy, and total energy systems in Federal buildings.
1977-03-30: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that any Federal employee who, at the time of retirement, does not elect a reduced annuity in order to provide a survivor annuity to a spouse or other person may make such an election within 1 year after retirement, whichever is later.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to improve the survey and certification process, rate-setting and fiscal audit methods, and regulation of nursing homes and intermediate care facilities under the medicaid program, and to provide for medical, psychological, and social assessment of long-term care patients under both the medicare and medicaid programs.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Automotive Transport Research and Development Act
1977-04-06: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
Opportunities Industrialization Assistance Act
1973-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.